And now for something completely different. My I-P junkie friends ( I say that lovingly!) will hopefully bear with me as I delve into one of my passions, one which has been stilled over the past few years by all the murder and mayhem in the Middle East. I know friends and enemies sometimes remark on my intemperateness in the comment threads here. So I … [Read more...]

Woody Guthrie memorably wrote that "some rob you with a six-gun and some with a fountain pen." Similarly, some ethnic cleansing happens by force and out in the open a la Serbia's displacement of Croats and Kosovars during the Yugoslav wars, and some happens with the stroke of a pen. Witness the IDF's expulsion between 1967 and 1994 of 140,000 Palestinians … [Read more...]

Hey, Gerald Steinberg, what've you got against bubbes and zaydehs? That's what I want to know. It seems that Jessica Montell, executive director of B'Tselem tweeted on October 25th:
Just received a donation from Bubbes and Zaydes for Peace in the Middle East. I don't know the group but it brought a big smile to my face.
So why did NGO Monitor have to go … [Read more...]

I don't know whether to pity or despise Shuki Weiss, Israeli concert promoter, who's losing international stars to the Israeli boycott faster than he can replace them. The IDF's conspicuous disregard for Arab life doesn't seem to be helping his cause very much. But Weiss isn't doing himself any favors by making statements such as this after the Pixies (and … [Read more...]

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